D-Day

0:03 Calaruga Shark Media PI. I'm Mark Ellison and today's theme is D Day Anniversary one two. The Normandy Invasion and Heroes of the Second World War. Question one. In the months before D Day, Allied planners orchestrated an elaborate deception using dummy tanks, fake radio traffic, and a notional army under General George S. Patten to convince the Germans the main landing would come at the Pot de Calais rather than Normandy. What was the code name of this deception plan? Question two? Just after midnight on the sixth of June nineteen forty four, British glider troops crash landed within yards of two bridges over the cann Canal and the River Orne and seized them in a lightning raid to protect the invasion's eastern flank. What was the code name for this glider assault? Question three. Thousands of Allied soldiers reached the Normandy beaches aboard shallow draft landing craft with drop down ramps known as LCVPs or Higgins Boats. Which American boat builder designed and mass produced these craft? Question four?

1:23 On D Day, US troops used rocket fired grapnels and ladders to climb the one hundred foot cliffs of Point do Hawk under heavy fire to silence artillery threatening Omaha and Utah beaches. Which unit carried out this assault? Question five? To keep supplies flowing after the landings, the Allies assembled artificial mulberry harbors off the Normandy coast. The British harbor at Ramange Leban survived a severe June storm and became a vital hub for months by What nickname was that harbor known? We'll be right back with these answers after this break welcome back. Question one? What was the d DA deception plan called answer Operation Fortitude part of the wider Bodyguard Deception Fortitude with North and South components misled German commanders about Allied intentions. Double Agent Juan Poojol Garcia code named Garbo Fed carefully crafted false reports that helped keep German forces away from Normandy. Question two. Code name of the glider raid that seized Pegasus and Horse Bridges.

2:37 Answer Operation dead Stick. Led by Major John Howard's d Company, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. The raid captured the can Canal Bridge later named Pegasus Bridge and the nearby Orn Riverbridge horsa. Holding these crossings prevented German counter attacks from splitting the beachhead. Question three. Who designed the Higgins boat LCVP Answer Andrew Jacks ex and Higgins. New Orleans based Higgins Industries adapted shallow water work boats into rugged landing craft that could run up on beaches and unload rapidly. Dwight D. Eisenhower later credited Higgins's boats as crucial to the ally's ability to conduct amphibious assaults at scale. Question four Which unit scaled point to hawk? Answer? The U S Second Ranger Battalion under Lieutenant Colonel James Earl Rudder.

3:24 The Rangers scaled the cliffs, discovered the guns had been moved inland, and located and destroyed them. They then held the position against counter attacks despite heavy casualties. Question five. Nickname of the Mulberry Harbor at Aramans Answer, Port Winston. The Aremanches installation Mulberry B was nicknamed Port Winston in homage to Winston Churchill, a champion of the concept. The American Mulberry at Omaha Beach was wrecked by the mid June storm, making Port Winston even more essential. That concludes today's five Daily Trivia Questions. I'm Mark Ellison, and today's questions were crafted with the help of AI technology. See you tomorrow.